Improvement in fence-posts



R. J. REDMOND. Pence-Post.

No. 197,054. Patented Nov. 13, I877 Milli I12 vantox NFETERS. PHOTO LITHQGRAPHER WASNIN T N UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

RICHARD J. REDMOND, OF OXFORD, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCE-POSTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,054, dated November 13, 1877; application filed February 28, 1877.

p the ground, keeps it upright, and prevents it sinking in soft places. The small flanges or brackets B B, cast on the front of the post, form chambers O O, &c., into which the ends of the fence-boards D D, &c., fit as tenons into a mortise, and are secured there by the upright board F being passed down through the three staplesE E, &c., as shown, and the division in the center of the chamber prevents the boards from slipping endwise, and helps to keep the posts upright.

This post can be used for a picket-fence by fastening the stringers to which the pickets are to be attached in the spaces between the first and second and third and fourth chambers, the stringers being secured in their places by the upright board, which is removable at pleasure, as the boards in the ordinary board fence.

I claim as my invention- A cast-iron fence-post with the flange A, the flanges or brackets B, and the staples E, in combination with the board F, substantially as described, and for the purposes herein set forth.

RICHARD J. BEDMOND.

Witnesses: B. G. GREENE,

DANL. W. REDMoNn. 

